Re: Localizing variants of English

FROM : mmalc crawford
DATE : Sun Jan 06 20:25:14 2008

On Jan 5, 2008, at 3:17 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:

> Yes. There are language codes also for dialects, e.g. en-gb is 
> British English.
>

Typically you should specify a locale, not a language ID. For a 
project locale, it would be en_GB.
<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPInternational/Articles/LanguageDesignations.html
>


On Jan 5, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Fabian Schuiki wrote:

> Wouldn't make much sense for Swiss German since it's not a full 
> language as such, many components of a "full language" like High 
> German or English are missing (i.e. there are only 2 tenses for 
> verbs, present and present perfect). But for other languages this 
> actually would/could make sense…
>

As the above reference describes, there's more to a locale than just 
language...

mmalc